...paid by them. Approved, March 3, 1887. (24 S tat., 550.) [No. 31.] ADJUSTMENT OF RAILROAD LAND GRANTS. AN ACT to provide for the adjustment of land grants...forfeiture of unearned lands, and for other purposes. Bе it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress...

...31.] ADJUSTMENT OF KAILKOAD LAND GRANTS. AN ACT to provide for the adjustment of land grants made l>y Congress to aid in the construction of railroads,...forfeiture of unearned lands, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress...

...to immediately adjust, in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court, eacli of the railroad land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and heretofore unadjusted. The second section of said act provides — That if it shall appear, upon the...

...was brought by the Attorney General in 1893 under the authority of the act of March 3, 1887, c. 376, entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment of...forfeiture of unearned lands and for other purposes." By that act the Secretary of the Interior was directed to adjust, in accordance with the decisions...

...limits of the railroad grants. When, therefore, congress passed the act of March 3, 1887, providing for the adjustment of land grants made by congress to aid in the construction of railroads, it had this condition of affairs in view, and dealt with it upon the broad principle that the good...

...Interior was directed to adjust, in accordance with the decisions of this court, each of the railroad land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and theretofore unadjusted. Its 2d section provided that "if it shall appear, upon the completion of such...

...connection. He conducted to successful results much of the important litigation growing out of the 'land grants ' made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads. Out of these and the fickle legislation of the state in disposing of them arose a vast number of perplexing...

...acquire in. to, or respecting any of the lands hereinbefore described, in virtue of the act of Congress entitled 'An Act to Provide for the Adjustment of...reference to that portion of the decree just quoted (p. (55, L. ed. p. 382, Sup. Ct. Rep. p. 34) : [51] '"Instead of leaving undetermined the matters in dispute...

...acquire in, to or respecting any of the lands hereinbefore described, in virtue of the act of Congress entitled ' An act to provide for the adjustment of...reference to that portion of the decree just quoted (p. 65) : Statement of the Case. " Instead of leaving undetermined the matters in dispute between the United...

...to immediately adjust, in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme С -urt, each of the railroad land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and heretofore unadjusted. SEC. 2. That if it shall appear, upon the completion of such adjustments respectfully,...